Romeo and Juliet Act 1, Scene 4-5 Vocabulary

prolixity	wordiness
stakes	the consequences of the outcome
woe	great sorrow or distress
boisterous	(adj.) rough and noisy in a cheerful way; high-spirited
visor	mask
doth	do/does
mire	mud; wet, swampy ground; a tough situation; to get stuck
wits	Intelligence
idle	Not active or in useinactive
begot	Fathered
bitterly	strongly and with a lot of bad feelings
trencher	a wooden board or platter on which food served
marchpane	Almond paste, marzipan
dainty	preciously delicate or charming
knaves	villains
quench	to put out, extinguish, end
ward	in the direction of
foe	enemy
disparagment	criticism, censure
ill-beseeming	Unnatural
cock-a-hoop	Adj; 1. triumphantly boastful: exultin
scathe	to harm
choler	Easily angered
profan	unholy
shrine	place of worship
purged	cleansed of; freed from moral or ceremonial defilement
trifling	Trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow
waxes	gets bigger
hither	to here
heir	a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person’s death
yond	over there
prodigious	Enormous